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Athol Raymond Bateman

Athol Raymond Bateman was born circa 1936 at Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He was the son of William Ernest Victor Bateman and Alice Beatrice Middleton. When Joyce Treen (nee Talor) was living with Beatrice, she remembers Athol use to play the piano beautifully. The went to see "A song to Remember", a story of Chopin’s life, at the local cinema in Albany Highway, Victoria Park (possibly the Broadway theatre – approx 1948). When they returned home Athol wanted to go and play the music from the show on the piano but his overbearing mother ordered him to go to bed. He got up first thing in the morning and played by ear the music he heard the night before. He always wanted to be a concert pianist but his parents didn’t seem to share his enthusiasm.1 In 1958 Athol Raymond Bateman lived at Curtin, Western Australia, Australia, (Electoral Rolls.)

Francis Victor Langfeld Bateman

Francis Victor Langfeld Bateman was born on 1 August 1926 at Bournemouth, Dorset, England; He was listed as age 3 years on the passenger lists when he emigrated to Australia with his parents on 19 Oct 1929. He was the son of William Ernest Victor Bateman and Alice Beatrice Middleton. As of 1927, Francis Victor Langfeld Bateman was also known as Frank. Francis Victor Langfeld Bateman married Joan Myrtle Blee on 7 April 1949 at Gosnells Church, Canning, Western Australia, Australia.1Francis Victor Langfeld Bateman died on 3 May 2011 at Kincumber, New South Wales, Australia, at age 84. OBITUARY: Francis Victor Langfeld Bateman (Frank) Born: 1st Aug 1926 in Bournemouth U.K; Died: 3rd May 2011 in Kincumber N.S.W;Married: Joan Myrtle Blee on 7th April 1949 at Gosnell Church. He is survived by his wife Joan and children - 2 Sons:- Graeme & Alwyn (both of Albury/Wodonga) and a daughter Vicki (McGrath Hill N.S.W.); seven grandchildren; and three greta grandchildren. His entire working life of 40 years was devoted to Sanitarium, the Church, it's people and it's mission. He was a much loved member of the Erina, NSW church. He touched so many lives and was always caring for others. Now he is cared for by Jesus. (Record, 2 July 2011, page 22, ISSN 0819-5633, Official news magazine of the South Pacific Division Seventh-day Adventist Church, Vol 116 No 13.)

William Ernest Victor Bateman

Hilda Beatrice May Thompson (nee Bateman) about 15 years old, with her brother William Ernest Victor Bateman. Photo courtesy of her granddaughter Debbie Acton (2014).

William Ernest Victor Bateman was born in 1901 at Dorchester, Dorset, England; His age was given as 29 years when he emigrated to Australia in 1929.1 He was the son of Charles Thomas Bateman and Mary Jane Stone. William Ernest Victor Bateman also went by the name of Victor. William Ernest Victor Bateman married Alice Beatrice Middleton, daughter of James Middleton and Annie Marchant, in 1925 at Bournemouth, Dorset, England.2 In October 1929 William Ernest Victor Bateman and Alice Beatrice Middleton lived at 5 Pelham Place, Seaford, Sussex, England. William Ernest Victor Bateman was a labourer in October 1929. William Ernest Victor Bateman and Alice Beatrice Middleton emigrated on 19 October 1929 to Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, from the port of Liverpool on the ship "Vedic" with son Francis Bateman.3 They emmigrated to Australia a few years after her brother Frank Middleton, who emmigrated in 1927. In Australia they had a second son, Athol, and became Seventh Day Adventists. Francis married and moved to Eastern States (?) and Athol went to London. When Arthur and Ada Taylor came to Australia in 1948 they stayed with Beatrice before building their own house. Arthur and Ada's daughter Joyce recalls that on Saturday nights, Beatrice and Victor used to go into a room and close off the doors so they could pray and no one was to disturb them. In 1948 William Ernest Victor Bateman and Alice Beatrice Middleton lived at Beatty Avenue, Carlisle, Western Australia, Australia. The death certificate for Victor Bateman was found by Debbie Acton, a descendant of Victor's sister Hilda Beatrice May Thomson (nee Bateman). In 1970 William Ernest Victor Bateman and Alice Beatrice Middleton lived at 2 Basler Court, Kangaroo Flat, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.4William Ernest Victor Bateman died on 4 August 1970 at Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Age 68 years. He died of cardiac failure (months), hypertension (years), chronic nephritis (years) and pneumonia (weeks).4William Ernest Victor Bateman was buried on 6 August 1970 at Bendigo Cemetery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.4